On the way back, the mother and son were speechless all the way.

The thought of another child leaving her heart felt empty in her heart.

Whether it's Colin or Evan, one by one, it's not worry-free.

Back home, Virginia brought a bunch of SAT-related materials and threw them on Evan's desk.

Evan thanked him.

Virginia accepted it, sat down on the edge of Evan's bed, and asked, "Is it possible for Caltech to accept your situation?"

Evan smiled, "No problem, don't you believe in my ability?"

"Big deal...... I asked Earl to write me a letter of recommendation!"

"Heh, you just brag, for this surprise attack you did today, see if Dad will write it for you?"

"Go, go, go, talk cool, I'm going to sleep. ”

"Bang!"

Virginia was pushed out of the door, and the door slammed shut.

"Alas!" Virginia sighed suddenly, should she tell Linda about this?

Evan shrunk into the bed, and before turning off the light, he took the desk calendar from the bedside.

"February 2nd......" Evan touched the numbers on the desk calendar and said to himself in a somewhat unfamiliar Chinese: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it's a pity that I can't celebrate the Spring Festival......

He put the desk calendar over his chest, looked at the ceiling, and muttered, "Caltech, Los Angeles, wait, I'm coming......"

Caltech is one of the top polytechnic universities in the United States, with many Nobel Prize winners, and its strength is not far behind Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which Evan originally wanted to go to.

The reason why Evan didn't list it as a top choice was simply because he grew up in the Internet age and had a special affection for those two universities. Not to mention, Stanford University, as the talent center of Silicon Valley, HP, Cisco, Silicon Map, SUN, Yahoo, Google, and other high-tech companies are closely related to it. MIT has also contributed a lot to the Internet and the digital age, with GNU, the World Wide Web Standards Alliance, and others all established on its campus.

And Evan changed his mind and chose to go to Caltech, not all because he didn't want to be separated from Audrey.

It was the newspaper that reminded him.

The world's first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, was born at the University of Pennsylvania. The next thing to be born will be the transistor computer. In the previous life, Shockley, who invented the transistor, received a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology. IN ADDITION, GORDON MOORE, THE FOUNDER OF INTEL, ALSO CAME FROM CALTECH.

Of course, for the Chinese, Caltech is most famous for Mr. Qian Xuesen, the "father of two bombs and one star" of the "five divisions in combat effectiveness".

If you go to Caltech, you will have the opportunity to mix in the invention of the transistor, and maybe you can meet Mr. Qian!

A smile appeared at the corner of Evan's mouth, who had unconsciously fallen asleep.

The next day, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Evan called Audrey out and worked out the details together.

In the days that followed, Audrey was also busy. Los Angeles Arts and Crafts High School is not very demanding, and in order to increase the success rate, Audrey increased the amount of practice.

Evan is also actively preparing application materials and reviewing for exams. Although he feels that the SAT test is not difficult, he will not relax easily to be on the safe side.

Time flies.

Robert's voice change period has finally passed. When he found that his voice was finally no longer unpleasant and harsh, he excitedly read the drama lines in front of his family for an hour.

On February 14th, the University of Pennsylvania presented the finished ENIAC in public. The computer, built by four scientists, covers an area of 170 square meters, weighs 30 tons, has a power of 150 kW, and is programmed by six women. It's a pity that they don't remember much for their work, and they were once disparagingly called "refrigerator ladies".

Evan read the news in the newspaper the next day, and he solemnly cut it out as a memento.

The news stories collected by Evan also included the headlines on March 5 and August 15 and September 2 last year.

On March 9, Evan and Virginia both went to the SAT test room in San Francisco to take the test. Audrey also followed, waiting outside the exam room like a college entrance examination parent.

When he came out of the exam room, Evan looked relaxed, but Virginia was nervous.

On the way home, Evan wisely didn't mess with Virginia and asked Audrey to talk to her and distract her.

As he waited for his results, Evan turned his attention back to his career.

After more than a month of hard work, Carl finally got through all the joints and got the permission to start the factory.

Magic7's factory is built in North Sacramento, across the river from Sacramento, with an area of 100,000 square meters, which is even a bit too much for the production of Rubik's Cube. Therefore, the area that is actually used here is only part of it.

According to the scheduled construction schedule, the plant will be completed in about two months. This kind of factory construction is simple, which is why it can be so fast.

If it is put into the hands of the "infrastructure madman", the construction period is estimated to be shorter.

Evan is not dissatisfied with this, he just hopes that the factory can be built smoothly and not be affected by the wave of strikes.

By the end of March, the nearly four-month general strike had finally ended, and GM and GE workers got what they wanted, with their wages rising considerably. However, just a few days after President Truman's rest, in April, hundreds of thousands of railroad workers announced that they would go on strike within 30 days. If that happens, the entire U.S. transportation network will be paralyzed. For this, President Truman was furious.

This incident made Evan want to laugh a little, you must know that the union and the Democratic Party used to cooperate closely, but now Truman is not able to come to power, it is really unpredictable.

Evan thinks Republicans must be smiling more merrily.

On the day the railroad workers threatened to strike, Sacramento High School was on vacation and Evan's second semester was over.

A week later, the third semester begins. The 21st in the middle is Easter.

Before the holidays, the SAT scores of the siblings came out. Needless to say, Evan is almost a perfect score. Virginia's grades were also good, and the math part improved a lot, and finally the previous efforts were not in vain.

After getting the results, the sister and brother immediately seized the time to send out the application materials. Because her brother was going to Caltech, Virginia didn't want to go far, so she set the main target of her application to be the Humanities Division at UCLA.

Not long after the start of the new semester, Audrey received an interview notice from the Arts and Crafts High School. On the day of the interview, Joseph took a special leave of absence to accompany Audrey to Los Angeles. Originally, Evan wanted to be together, but Joseph said he wouldn't let anything. One big and one small, two men, you stare at me and I stare at you, and they don't give in to each other. Audrey had no choice but to let Evan stay.

The waiting time is the hardest.

In mid-May, the admission letters of the three finally got their hands one after another. Evan's offer was the last to arrive, and on the day it arrived, Evan suddenly received a call from Linda, and what she said made him feel inexplicable.

"Evan, see you at school in September!"